Tool to generate permutations of items, the arrangement of distinct items in all possible orders: 123,132,213,231,312,321.
Permutations - dCode
Tag(s) : Combinatorics
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Permutations
Permutations Generator
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Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is a permutation? (Definition)
In Mathematics, item permutations consist in the list of all possible arrangements (and ordering) of these elements in any order.
Example: The three letters A,B,C can be shuffled (anagrams) in 6 ways: A,B,C B,A,C C,A,B A,C,B B,C,A C,B,A
Permutations should not be confused with combinations (for which the order has no influence) or with arrangements also called partial permutations (k-permutations of some elements).
How to generate permutations?
The best-known method is the Heap algorithm (method used by this dCode's calculator).
Here is a pseudo code source : function permute(data, n) {
if (n = 1) print data
else {
for (i = 0 .. n-2) {
permute(data, n-1)
if (n % 2) swap(data[0], data[n-1])
else swap(data[i], data[n-1])
permute(data, n-1)
}
}
}
Permutations can thus be represented as a tree of permutations: 
How to count permutations?
Counting permutations uses combinatorics and factorials
Example: For $ n $ items, the number of permutations is equal to $ n! $ (factorial of $ n $)
How to count distinguishable permutations?
Having a repeated item involves a division of the number of permutations by the number of permutations of these repeated items.
Example: DCODE 5 letters have $ 5! = 120 $ permutations but contain the letter D twice (these $ 2 $ letters D have $ 2! $ permutations), so divide the total number of permutations $ 5! $ by $ 2! $: $ 5!/2!=60 $ distinct permutations.
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